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ArticleJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2021

Investigation of hub genes and immune status in heart transplant rejection using endomyocardial biopsies.

Meng-Xi Xiu, Yuan-Meng Liu, Wen-Jun Wang

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Article in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Whole transcriptome profiling of prospective endomyocardial biopsies reveals prognostic and diagnostic signatures of cardiac allograft rejection.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2022
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Meng-Xi XiuMedical School of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Yuan-Meng LiuMedical School of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Wen-Jun WangDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6359-0034
Nanchang University · CN

Funding

the Province National Natural Science Foundation of JiangXi 20192BAB205011
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T cell-mediated rejection (TCMR) and antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) are severe post-transplantation complications for heart transplantation (HTx), whose molecular and immunological pathogenesis remains unclear. In the present study, the mRNA microarray data set GSE124897 containing 645 stable, 52 TCMR and 144 ABMR endomyocardial biopsies was obtained to screen for differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between rejected and stable HTx samples and to investigate immune cell infiltration. Functional enrichment analyses indicated roles of the DEGs primarily in immune-related mechanisms. Protein-protein interaction networks were then constructed, and ICAM1, CD44, HLA-A and HLA-B were identified as hub genes using the maximal clique centrality method. Immune cell infiltration analysis revealed differences in adaptive and innate immune cell populations between TCMR, ABMR and stable HTx samples. Additionally, hub gene expression levels significantly correlated with the degree and composition of immune cell infiltration in HTx rejection samples. Furthermore, drug-gene interactions were constructed, and 12 FDA-approved drugs were predicted to target hub genes. Finally, an external GSE2596 data set was used to validate the expression of the hub genes, and ROC curves indicated all four hub genes had promising diagnostic value for HTx rejection. This study provides a comprehensive perspective of molecular and immunological regulatory mechanisms underlying HTx rejection.

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BiopsyELAV-Like Protein 2Gene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksGraft RejectionHeart TransplantationHumansMyocardiumPostoperative ComplicationsProtein Interaction MapsELAVL2 protein, humanELAV-Like Protein 2bioinformatic analysisdifferentially expressed genesheart transplant rejectionimmune cell infiltrationprotein-protein interaction network

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PMID33230903
PMCPMC7812257
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